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What is the census?
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How often is it conducted?
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Why is it conducted?
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In 1929, Congress set the size-limit of the House of Representatives at ________.
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Because of this, what happens to each State’s Congressional delegation when it gets more citizens? i.
How often do the states redraw their Congressional Districts? ii.
What are the two reasons they do this? iii.
What is this called?
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How is redistricting a political activity?
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How can political parties gain advantages in the way they redraw the lines?
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What groups have been targeted this way in the past?
There are two ways groups in power have limited and/or targeted groups:
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Packing - Concentrating like-minded voters together in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts. This gives the group representation in a single district while denying them representation across districts.
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Cracking - Spreading like-minded voters apart across multiple districts to dilute their voting power in each.
This denies the group representation in multiple districts.

Using computers, partisan mapmakers try out various scenarios using both packing and cracking to create comfortable, but not excessive, margins of victory for preferred candidates, while diluting the supporters of candidates from the opposite party.
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What is gerrymandering?
“Gerrymandering comes from combining the word “salamander” and the name of Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts from 1810 to 1812. In 1812, Gerry signed into law a redistricting plan designed to benefit his political party. The term was first used in the Boston Gazette of March 26, 1812 to describe a district that the newspaper likened to the shape of a salamander. The newspaper referred to the district as a "Gerry"-mander."
Rules for Reapportionment
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Each district must have how many constituents?
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When can states not gerrymander? a.
What reason is it allowed?
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What are “majority-minority districts”? a.
Are these types of districts allowed?
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What Supreme Court case struck down racial gerrymandering?
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What does “one person, one vote” mean?
Can We Fix It?
Traditionally, there are three primary ways to avoid or reduce the impact of gerrymandering for political purposes:
 Proportional representation – allocates representation on the basis of a party’s total vote
 Refusing to redraw district boundary lines